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Selected work activities and concerns:
1) Feed Dam Passage Improvement Project - A project to improve fish passage over the short
term at the Feed Canal Diversion Dam site (Umatilla River mile 28.7) was implemented with
local U.S. Bureau of Reclamation field office personnel coordinating project activities.
Operation and Maintenance Project personnel assisted with labor, materials, and equipment
to ensure the project was completed as planned. Discussions are under way to determine
feasible alternatives for longer term solutions to passage issues at the site.
2) Three Mile Right (east bank) Facilities - The pump for supplying water to the fish handling
facility holding pond was reconstructed successfully to achieve the desired increase in flow
output necessary when increased quantities of fish are present
3) Fish Screen Rehab at Stanfield Canal Diversion - Working with the Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife screen shop personnel, three rotating drum screens at the Stanfield Canal
diversion site (Umatilla River mile 33.3) were serviced and overhauled with new bearings,
seals, paint, and reinforcing bars. Work was completed, and screens reinstalled prior to water
diversions beginning in the spring.
4) O & M personnel performed daily, weekly, and monthly operations and maintenance duties
at the screen and ladder sites including, but not limited to, desilting of mud and debris,
lubrication of mechanical parts, replacement of screen seals and screen motor components,
adjustment of ladder gates, removal of large trees and woody debris deposited during high
river flow conditions, servicing of pumps and screens for fish handling operations and
sampling studies, in addition to general site clean-up, vegetative control, and security. Crew
members responded as needed during evenings and after-hours according to weather
conditions, river flows, and fish passage facility needs.
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